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Google's Epic legal defeat threatens $200 billion app store industry

The loss - handed down by a San Francisco jury on Monday - is a blow to the two companies' business model in apps, where they charge commissions of as much as 30 per cent

Indian consumertech industry to reach $300 billion by 2027: Report

The unlocking of India's consumer potential is driven by digital public infrastructure (DPI) and population-scale solutions

Explained: Epic Games' win against tech giant Google in US Federal Court

A US Federal Court has said that Google has turned the Google Play app store and Google Play Billion service into an illegal monopoly. But what is the Epic vs Google case? Here's all you need to know

Google to bring Samsung Secure Folder-like 'Private Space' with Android 15

The built-in Private Space on Android smartphones is expected to debut with Android 15 next year

Google maintained monopoly by engaging in anticompetitive conduct: US Court

A federal court jury has decided that Google's Android app store has been protected by anticompetitive barriers that have damaged smartphone consumers and software developers, dealing a blow to a major pillar of a technology empire. The unanimous verdict reached Monday came after just three hours of deliberation following a four-week trial revolving around a lucrative payment system within Google's Play store. The store is the main place where hundreds of millions of people around the world download and install apps that work on smartphones powered by Google's Android software. Epic Games, the maker of the popular Fortnite video game, filed a lawsuit against Google three years ago, alleging that the internet search giant has been abusing its power to shield its Play Store from competition in order to protect a gold mine that makes billions of dollars annually. Just as Apple does for its iPhone app store, Google collects a commission ranging from 15 per cent to 30 per cent on digital

Alphabet loses Google Play Store antitrust battle with Epic Games

Epic largely lost a similar challenge to Apple Inc.'s app store two years ago and both companies have asked the US Supreme Court to review their dispute

Google trial focused on app store payments to be handed off to jury

A federal court jury is poised begin its deliberations in an antitrust trial focused on whether Google's efforts to profit from its app store for Android smartphones have been illegally gouging consumers and stifling innovation. Before the nine-person jury in San Francisco starts weighing the evidence on Monday, the lawyers on the opposing sides of the trial will present their closing arguments in a three-year-old case filed by Epic Games, the maker of the popular Fortnite video game. The four-week trial included testimony from both Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who sometimes seemed like a professor explaining complex topics while standing behind a lectern because of a health issue, and Epic CEO Tim Sweeney, who painted himself as a video game lover on a mission to take down a greedy tech titan. Epic alleged that Google has been exploiting its wealth and control of the Android software that powers most of the world's smartphones to protect a lucrative payment system within its Play Stor

Vaishali Kasture resigns as AWS India's interim country head in five months

Vaishali Kasture had taken over from the former president of commercial business, Puneet Chandok, in July this year

AI race gets fiercer: Is Google's Gemini a giant stride or leap of faith?

Gemini is currently available only in English but support for other languages are expected to come soon

Microsoft, OpenAI partnership draws UK antitrust regulator scrutiny

Brad Smith, Microsoft's president, said as recently as last month he doesn't "see a future where Microsoft takes control of OpenAI"

AI startups that help fight cancer, fraud picked for Google accelerator

20 companies will be mentored for solutions that 'positively impact various industries and transform lives', says tech giant

Billing system case: Google withdraws appeal against Delhi HC order

The CCI said it has no objection to the withdrawal

Gemini 1.0: What's new with Google's latest AI model and how it works

Google rolls out Gemini AI to Bard and Pixel Pro smartphones, coming to Search, Chrome and more soon

Alphabet launches Gemini, an AI- based model it hopes will take down GPT-4

Called Gemini, the Google owner's highly anticipated AI model is capable of more sophisticated reasoning and understanding information with a greater degree of nuance than Google's prior technology

Govts spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications: US senator

In a statement, Apple said that Wyden's letter gave them the opening they needed to share more details with the public about how governments monitored push notifications

AI boosts user experience in top-rated apps of 2023, say Google, Apple

2023 sees AI integration in top apps, enhancing user experience and innovation

Google delays the launch of Gemini AI foundation model to January: Report

With Gemini's multimodal capabilities, Google aims to challenge ChatGPT's dominance in the generative AI space

Google adds loads of features to Android and Wear OS devices: Know details

Google has announced App updates, AI-based features and more ways to respond to messages and emails with the latest feature drop

YouTube says it restricts misleading videos, removes harmful ones

According to a Google transparency report, YouTube removed over 14.06 million channels, totalling 86.76 million videos, between April and June this year

Google is rolling out a new navigation bar for Chats app: Know details

The new update with redesigned app layout has started rolling out for both Android and iOS devices